Tag: jobs speech

President Barack Obama is giving a speech on his jobs program right now at Abraham Lincoln High School in Denver. It's a hot day and helicopters are circling and people in the crowd are reportedly passing out from exhaustion. It's going to be a big news story. Yet the press badges issued for his fundraising trip around the American West would seem to place him somewhere in Wyoming not Colorado. The Washington mix up won't come as any surprise to politically disillusioned westerners used to people in the nation's capital breezily getting everything wrong.

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The Colorado Independent's award-winning team of veteran investigative and explanatory reporters and news columnists aims to amplify the voices of Coloradans whose stories are unheard, shine light on the relationships between people, power and policy, and hold public officials to account. We strive to report the news with context, social conscience, and soul, and to give Coloradans the insight they need to promote conversation, understanding and progress in this square, swing state we call home.